Naperville police seek suspect in early-morning home invasion

August 23, 2001

A 35-year-old Naperville woman awoke early Wednesday to find an intruder in her apartment in the 400 block of East Bailey Road, police said.

The woman awoke at 1:18 a.m. to find a man standing in her bedroom, according to Naperville Police Sgt. David Hoffman. When she declared she was getting a gun, the intruder left the room. The woman then woke three other family members, and they together checked the apartment, but the man apparently had left through the front door, which was ajar.

Hoffman said the intruder's motives were unclear.

The man had apparently scaled the outside wall of the apartment building to the woman's second-story balcony and entered the bedroom through an unlocked patio door, Hoffman said.

The man was described as about 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a medium build, curly hair and wearing a white T-shirt.

Such incidents are rare in Naperville, Hoffman said. "We only see a handful of cases like this in a year," he said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Naperville police at 630-305-5276 or Naperville Crime Stoppers at 630-420-6006.